Communication system noise cancellation power signal calculation techniques

a technology of power signal and communication system, applied in the direction of speech analysis, instruments, etc., can solve the problems of limited the effectiveness of known noise cancellation systems, two-state voice activity detectors that do not perform robustly, and significant degradation of speech quality at the far end of receivers, etc., to achieve the effect of improving communication signal quality

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-11-02
TELLABS OPERATIONS
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[0012] By using the foregoing techniques, the power measurements needed to improve communication signal quality can be made with a degree of ease and accuracy unattained by the known prior techniques.

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Cellular telephones are operated often in the presence of high levels of environmental background noise, such as in moving vehicles.
Such high levels of noise cause significant degradation of the speech quality at the far end receiver.
Such two-state voice activity detectors do not perform robustly under adverse conditions such as in cellular telephony environments.
In the past, inaccuracies in such power measures have limited the effectiveness of known noise cancellation systems.

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[0026] The preferred form of ANC system shown in FIG. 3 is robust under adverse conditions often present in cellular telephony and packet voice networks. Such adverse conditions include signal dropouts and fast changing background noise conditions with wide dynamic ranges. The FIG. 3 embodiment focuses on attaining high perceptual quality in the processed speech signal under a wide variety of such channel impairments.

[0027] The performance limitation imposed by commonly used two-state voice activity detection functions is overcome in the preferred embodiment by using a probabilistic speech presence measure. This new measure of speech is called the Speech Presence Measure (SPM), and it provides multiple signal activity states and allows more accurate handling of the input signal during different states. The SPM is capable of detecting signal dropouts as well as new environments. Dropouts are temporary losses of the signal that occur commonly in cellular telephony and in voice over p...

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In order to enhance the quality of a communication signal derived from speech and noise, a filter divides the communication signal into a plurality of frequency band signals. A calculator generates a plurality of power band signals each having a power band value and corresponding to one of the frequency band signals. The power band values are based on estimating, over a time period, the power of one of the frequency band signals. The time period is different for different ones of the frequency band signals. The power band values are used to calculate weighting factors which are used to alter the frequency band signals that are combined to generate an improved communication signal.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10 / 376,849, filed Feb. 28, 2003, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 09 / 536,941, filed Mar. 28, 2000, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,529,868 B1.STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT [0002] Not applicable. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] This invention relates to communication system noise cancellation techniques, and more particularly relates to calculation of power signals used in such techniques. [0004] The need for speech quality enhancement in single-channel speech communication systems has increased in importance especially due to the tremendous growth in cellular telephony. Cellular telephones are operated often in the presence of high levels of environmental background noise, such as in moving vehicles. Such high levels of noise cause significant degradation of the speech quality at the far end receiver. In such circumstances, speec...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G10L19/14G10L21/02
CPCG10L19/0204G10L21/0232G10L21/0208G10L21/02
Inventor CHANDRAN, RAVIDUNNE, BRUCE E.MARCHOK, DANIEL J.
Owner TELLABS OPERATIONS
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